Mcdermid Literary Quotes & Sayings

No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents. — Wendell Phillips

Love is the line that draws the shape of God.
Bleeding Hearts (Demimonde #1) — Ash Krafton

How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it? — Charlie Munger

Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate. — Carlos Salinas

It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan. — Val McDermid

If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now. — Jasper Fforde

Bad dreams are things precious the soul fears it may lose. — Rich Shapero

[Paul] has no intention to instruct the Christian community about the task and responsibility of government. His entire concern is with the responsibility of the Christian community towards the State. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It's safer to do nothing and know why you doing it, than to do something and don't know why you do it. — Myles Munroe

A lot of bands have intense names, like "Rigor Mortis" or "Mortuary". We weren't that intense, we called ourselves "Injured". Later on we changed it to "Acapella" when we were walking out of the pawn shop. — Mitch Hedberg